Lab

We are committed to constantly improving the way you interact with legal information

Lexum Lab – Lexum’s research and development team – leverages natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning and other artificial intelligence approaches and techniques to make legal information retrieval wiser, easier and faster. We partner with leading academic researchers on concrete projects and applications that will transform the way you find, process and share legal information.

Partnerships

Industrial member of the Institute for Data Valorization

IVADO is a joint initiative by academia (HEC Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal and the University of Montreal) and industry. Its goal is to develop a new economic sector evolving around massive data processing to support decision making.

Collaboration with the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms

The machine learning laboratory at the University of Montreal is one of the world’s leading teams in artificial intelligence and deep learning.

Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montréal

The Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) was one of the first university-level computer science departments in North America. At the master's and doctoral levels, the international-caliber research conducted in the DIRO is a major attraction for students looking for a cutting-edge environment in which to study and work.

Projects

Two innovating Québec SMEs, Irosoft and Lexum , both well known in Canadian legal circles, are joining forces today to develop technology that leverages artificial intelligence to open the way to exploiting very large data sets (“Big Data”) while ensuring the protection of the personal information that they contain. At present, Lexum and Irosoft...

Lexum is proud to announce a collaborative project with MILA (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) seeking to apply research in the area of deep learning and machine learning into the field of legal research. Having the chance of combining computer engineers with cutting-edge expertise in the specifics of legal texts, a large set of legal decisions...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in the legal industry is under the spotlight at the moment with efforts being made to utilize AI in the provision of a whole range of legal services. Lexum is one of the leaders in this emerging industry where we are using artificial intelligence to maximize legal research capabilities. Lexum’s work in artificial...

Background

Our technology enables organizations of all sizes to deliver content to end users with unparalleled speed and efficiency. We are constantly looking for new ways to automate and streamline the operation of legal information databases. Over the years, this has led us to replace manual editing by complex algorithms based on heuristics whenever possible.

One such example is Lexum’s citator, Reflex, which is used to automatically insert links on legal citations included in the text body of legal documents.

Another example is Decisia’s auto-fill feature, which enables our clients to extract all sorts of metadata values directly from the body of their unstructured documents in one single click.

This expertise, coupled with the large volume of legal information available to Lexum in parsable format, puts us in a unique position to leverage the opportunities presented by recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning.

Innovation has been part of Lexum’s DNA since the beginning. Twenty-five years ago, we started providing access to Supreme Court of Canada decisions on a Gopher server before the Web was even invented. Eventually, static webpages gave place to dynamic websites, and more recently bespoke software code gave way to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. Overall, in collaboration with the clients and partners who have trusted us, we have transformed the legal publishing industry. We intend to continue doing so.